Last month Jonny Greenwood talked to Dutch website 3voor12 about Radiohead’s progress in the studio, but as Consequence Of Sound notes, the interview just captured the attention of the band’s English-speaking fans on Reddit. And it’s a good thing they caught it! Most of the exchange is mundane — it took Radiohead “a lot of… More »

Flying Lotus must have gotten the memo that it’s Radiohead Week here at Stereogum, so he brought Jonny Greenwood onto his BBC Radio 1 residency for a guest mix. His set included an unreleased solo track called “Lola Choir,” an instrumental edit of his Inherent Vice soundtrack song “Spooks,” and a previously released remix of… More »

Radiohead have been in and out of the studio since last fall. Presumably they’re working on their next album, but word has been mum about what exactly is going on. Jonny Greenwood broke that silence today, though, with an interview in Indian newspaper The Sunday Guardian. Here’s what Greenwood had to say about Radiohead’s progress:… More »

Jonny Greenwood’s soundtrack for Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film Inherent Vice came out today and is available to stream, which you can do below via Spotify. It features original music from Greenwood, including the unreleased Radiohead song turned Supergrass collab “Spooks” and a track called “Under The Paving-Stones, The Beach!,” which features brother and other… More »

When Radiohead debuted “Spooks” back in 2006, it was a rollicking guitar-powered instrumental the likes of which the band hadn’t tackled since “Electioneering.” (Actually, the closest corollary in the band’s discography is probably the Bends-era B-side “The Trickster.”) Now Jonny Greenwood plus former Supergrass members Gaz Coombes and Danny Goffey have reworked the song for… More »

In addition to his work on the Inherent Vice score and soundtrack, Jonny Greenwood has been focusing on his classical music. He recently worked with the Australian Chamber Orchestra on his new work “Water” and performed with the London Contemporary Orchestra last month at Manchester’s Albert Hall. During the performance, he plays some bits of… More »

The soundtrack for Inherent Vice will be out on December 15th. Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood did the score for the Paul Thomas Anderson-directed film — they previously worked together on The Master and There Will Be Blood. The soundtrack features original compositions, a new Radiohead song called “Spooks” that Greenwood recorded with two of the member… More »

Jonny Greenwood has been writing classical music for some time now, and his latest work “Water” is being performed by the Australian Chamber Orchestra this fall. Greenwood and orchestra director Richard Tognetti sat down for a fascinating, candid video interview that sheds a lot of light on the project and previews the music. Particularly interesting… More »

Slatereports that Inherent Vice, Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film that was scored by Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood, contains an unreleased Radiohead instrumental called “Spooks,” which the band began playing live during the In Rainbows era. The film, which is narrated by Joanna Newsom’s character Sortilège, was screened this weekend at the New York Film… More »

Videos from Jonny Greenwood’s recent orchestral performances have been gradually leaking out of late, some of which contain music from Greenwood’s score for Paul Thomas Anderson’s upcoming film, Inherent Vice, based on the novel by Thomas Pynchon. We recently saw a clip for a piece titled “Loop,” and now you can watch one for “Ski… More »

In addition to headliners Steve Reich, Television, and John Cale, one of the big draws for this past weekend’s Big Ears Festival (which focuses primarily on experimental music) was Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood performing with the Wordless Music Orchestra. The set was recorded by a fan and you can hear some of it now. Two pieces,… More »

Over the weekend, the Radiohead guitarist and Paul Thomas Anderson film-score composer Jonny Greenwood performed at London’s Wapping Hydraulic Power Station, a 124-year-old facility built to power machinery across London. It’s easy to imagine that the idea of old, clanking, outmoded technology helped spark “Loop,” the piece of music he debuted there. Performing with the… More »

Movie buffs and fans of postmodernist lit have been waiting a while now for Inherent Vice. After the 2012 stunner The Master P.T. Anderson set his sights on an even bigger challenge: adapting a book by Thomas Pynchon. The mysterious writer’s knotty and overwhelmingly dense body of work makes him practically the poster boy for… More »

Since 2009 the Big Ears Festival has brought a massive slate of experimental music to Knoxville, Tennessee, and they’ve just announced their lineup for next spring (the festival occurs during the weekend of March 28-30). It’s kind of hard to contain my excitement here since I’m a sucker for this sort of thing, but if… More »

“Big things have small beginnings.” So says Michael Fassbender’s character in Prometheus. He was referring to a blob of alien goo that would go on to spawn the monster that drives the Alien series, but he just as easily could’ve been talking about Radiohead.

Like that daub of black goo, Radiohead’s origins were inauspicious. The… More »

There Will Be Blood would have been a seriously disquieting movie even if Rogers & Hammerstein had done the soundtrack, but Radiohead “guitarist” Jonny Greenwood’s insanity-inducing score amped up the disturbing to 11. Greenwood has teamed with Paul Thomas Anderson again for the director’s forthcoming The Master, a film officially not about Scientology or L. More »

Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film, The Master, revolves around a faith leader known as “The Master” (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and a man named Freddie Sutton (Joaquin Phoenix) who becomes his unlikely associate. Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood, who memorably collaborated with PTA on There Will Be Blood’s score, will reprise that role for The Master, and the… More »

Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood and Paul Thomas Anderson are set to collaborate again for the director’s new, Joaquin Phoenix-starring film operating under the working title The Master. Among the contributors to the soundtrack is the British jazz group Zed-U. Hopefully, Greenwood’s Oscar bid won’t be derailed for an obscure technicality this time around; The Master… More »

On a track with the perfectly ridiculous title “Retarded Fren,” Radiohead gentlemen Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood have hooked up with a somewhat unlikely collaborator, masked indie-rap hero DOOM. On the track, DOOM kicks his trademark slurry free-associative wordplay over wobbly bass-music subs and jittery strings that sound like they jumped straight from Greenwood’s There… More »

Though I have my reservations about The King Of Limbs and, like most people, revere the back catalog enough to be considered “formative” of personal experience listening to alternative music, I had realistic expectations for Wednesday night’s Radiohead show, the first of two at NYC’s Roseland ballroom. After all, this isn’t the band from Meeting… More »

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Last night, U2 played the seventh night of an eight-night stand at Madison Square Garden. (Our own young classic rocker Ryan Leas reviewed one of those shows earlier in the week.) And at last night’s show, the band introduced a few special local guests. There was New York royalty Paul Simon, who came out to… More »

After reportedly showing up half an hour late, rapper Travi$ Scott got his Lollapalooza set shut down after only 5 minutes by encouraging fans to jump the security barrier and rush the stage. Festival organizers deemed the resulting chaos to be unsafe and shut the whole thing down, with security forcibly removing Scott from the… More »

Eminem is a pretty fit dude — for a while, he was even attached to star in Antoine Fuqua’s new boxing movie Southpaw. So how does Eminem stay a pretty fit dude? By working out compulsively. And in a new article on Men’s Journal, the rapper details his compulsive exercise regimen. “In the early days,”… More »

Morrissey often uses his True To You website to write about cases of what he considers to be societal injustice, as he did in the recent post blasting the killer of Cecil the lion. But as Pitchfork points out, Morrissey’s latest post for the site details a much more personal violation. Morrissey writes that, a… More »

Lollapalooza takes place this weekend in Chicago, and most of the sets from the festival will be livestreaming via Red Bull TV in case you can’t (or don’t want to) leave the comfort of your own home. Some of the acts performing this weekend include Paul McCartney (with a highlights-only set streaming), Metallica, the Weeknd,… More »

Superproducer Mark Ronson stopped by for a live in-studio session at Australian radio station Triple J today. As usual, he assembled a crack team of musicians to back him up, including Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker and Kirin J. Callinan on guitar. The band performed a great psyched-out cover of Queens Of The Stone Age’s “I… More »

Drake has already released not one but two diss tracks in response to Meek Mill’s ghostwriting allegations. After Funkmaster Flex promised a Meek response track Monday night on Hot 97 and failed to deliver, people were pissed, and everyone began to wonder if this mega-beef were already over. But no — the soap opera continues! More »